Only Human vs Waking Gods: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Only Human Only Human Sylvain Neuvel · 2018 ★★★★☆ 3.9 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

"World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory"--NPR) and Waking Gods ("Pure, unadulterated literary escapism"--Kirkus Reviews).…

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Cover of Waking Gods Waking Gods Sylvain Neuvel · 2017 ★★★★☆ 4.0 336 pages · ≈ 6 h 13 m · Moderate

"26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. 9 years ago: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of…

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The verdict

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Goodreads — 4.0 (50822)
Hardcover 3.7 (279) 4.0 (377)
Google Books — 5.0 (1)
Apple Books 4.0 (383) 4.5 (511)

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Only HumanWaking Gods
Ratings 383 50822
Editions 6 6
Want to read — 41461
Reading it now — 1633
Written reviews — 5506
Wikipedia attention 45 —
Pages 352 336

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